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- Title
Victor Vaughan (1851–1929) and the birth of bacteriology in the United States.
- Authors
Saadeh, Yamaan; Bartlett, Robert
- Abstract
Victor Vaughan is well known for his numerous accomplishments and services to science, medicine, and public health. This paper discusses one of Dr Vaughan’s earliest and most significant accomplishments: founding the Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Michigan in 1887, the first in the United States. The vision, initiative and planning demonstrated by this episode illustrate the characteristics that enabled Vaughan to have such an accomplished and storied career.
- Subjects
VAUGHAN, Victor; BACTERIOLOGY; HISTORY of microbiology; UNIVERSITY of Michigan; HYGIENE -- History; NOVY, Frederick
- Publication
Journal of Medical Biography, 2016, Vol 24, Issue 3, p371
- ISSN
0967-7720
- Publication type
Biography
- DOI
10.1177/0967772014533061